Pigneri, Rocco wrote: > Ah. In that case, I would strongly urge that the namespace class > functionality of IPS be removed so that developers don't have to keep > tip-toeing around that issue. Unless there is another way of using > classes in Python that I'm not aware of. > I strongly suspect it is the consequence of the CodeDOM provider that produces similarly structured code whatever the target language. I'm sure there *must* be some way to rectify this for IronPython though as those namespace classes are worse than useless.
Michael > Thank you, > > Rocco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curt > Hagenlocher > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:13 PM > To: Discussion of IronPython > Subject: Re: [IronPython] [python] [IronPythonStudio] > NamespaceClassesandAssembly Files > > On Jan 30, 2008 10:29 AM, Pigneri, Rocco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It sounds like instead, I need to do this: >> >> import FormOne >> import FormTwo >> >> f = FormOne.Forms.FormOne() >> f2 = FormTWo.Forms.FormTwo() >> >> Is this correct? >> > > Exactly. > > When you said "from FormOne import *", you introduced the symbol "Forms" > into the current namespace with the value of "FormOne.Forms". > When you then said "from FormTwo import *", you replaced the symbol > "Forms" with the value of "FormTwo.Forms". > > As you suggest, Python's "import" statement is not like the C# "using" > statement. A Pythonic import will introduce new symbols into the local > namespace at run time. The C# using statement is simply a directive to > the compiler to tell it which namespaces to search in for symbols that > are otherwise undefined in the local scope. It literally does not emit > any IL code that is executed at runtime. > > -- > Curt Hagenlocher > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
